The Emperor and the Peasant

Two Men at the Start of the Great War and the End of the Habsburg Empire

Kenneth Janda (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

287 Seiten

2018
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6957-1 (ISBN)

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There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history, presented as two intertwined narratives in alternating chapters, juxtaposes the experiences of a monarch and a peasant on the Eastern Front. Franz Joseph I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the first European leader to declare war; Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak labourer, drafted into the army and killed in combat.

There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history juxtaposes the experiences of a monarch and a peasant on the Eastern Front. Franz Josef I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the first European leader to declare war in 1914 and was the first to commence firing. Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak laborer who sailed to New York--and fathered twins, taken as babies (and U.S. citizens) to his home village--before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and killed in combat.

The author interprets the views of the war of Franz Josef and his contemporaries Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II. Mozolak's story depicts the life of a peasant in an army staffed by aristocrats, and also illustrates the pattern of East European immigration to America.

Kenneth Janda, Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, received the Frank J. Goodnow Award from the American Political Science Association in 2009. He has authored or edited several books on computer methods of data analysis, the cross-national study of political parties, and American government. He lives in Roseville, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Prologue: The Habsburg Empire and the Great War

1. The Emperor in Vienna

2. The Peasant in Krajné

3. The Emperor’s Subjects

4. The Peasant’s Voyage

5. Imperial Ignorance

6. Peasants in Passage

7. Imperial Deciders

8. Peasants Under Arms

9. Imperial Armies

10. Peasants in Peril

11. Imperial Irrelevance

12. Peasants in War

13. Imperial Losses

14. Peasant Gains

Epilogue: Immigration and Self-Determination

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.04.2018
Zusatzinfo	66 photos, 14 maps, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4766-6957-0 / 1476669570
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6957-1 / 9781476669571
Zustand	Neuware